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Social Flow In Google Analytics for ROI IN SME’s

What is Social Flow?

You have set-up Twitter / Facebook / Pinterest things seem to be working great right? But how do you know? ROI for a business is key, and even though cost is not so much a factor in the realm of social media time is! If you have spent all this time on the social medias plugging your business how do you know your hitting your targets if any?

Initial target for using the social medias is to drive traffic to your website where it converts into a sale / phone call etc…

Within Google Analytics you can now see the effectiveness of all your social media work.

If your website is using Google Analytics there is now an very easy way to view click through from your hard work on the social medias.

 

To do this go to your website analytics account:

Standard Reporting > Traffic Sources > Social > Social Visitors Flow

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It’s really that simple!

You can now view how effective all your hard work is!

It’s fair to say that though cost is not directly effected initially with SME’s trying social medias, throughout the year, the time spent doing all this work can mount up to a cost, so this is perfect for analysing the effectiveness of the social media used but more importantly can emphasise whether your social media strategy is right!

 

Managing your new community on Google+

All this buzz (or not) around Google+ lately has got people a little confused as what it is and what to do… and even more so, how dod i manage it once i have got it! To make things slightly more complicated Google have started to convert Google Places pages into Google+ pages (very clever) affecting a huge proportion of local businesses around Cardiff & The UK.

Anyways we could try and explain it well but as usual the SEOMoz guys nail it again! Read the article linked below and find out the basics of Managing your new Google Community!

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/5-tips-for-managing-community-on-google-plus